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+package org.apache.lucene.analysis.tokenattributes;
+
+/**
+ * Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ * contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed with
+ * this work for additional information regarding copyright ownership.
+ * The ASF licenses this file to You under the Apache License, Version 2.0
+ * (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with
+ * the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at
+ *
+ * http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+ *
+ * Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software
+ * distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS,
+ * WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied.
+ * See the License for the specific language governing permissions and
+ * limitations under the License.
+ */
+
+import java.io.Serializable;
+
+import org.apache.lucene.util.AttributeImpl;
+
+/**
+ * This attribute can be used to pass different flags down the tokenizer chain,
+ * eg from one TokenFilter to another one.
+ * @lucene.experimental While we think this is here to stay, we may want to change it to be a long.
+ */
+public class FlagsAttributeImpl extends AttributeImpl implements FlagsAttribute, Cloneable, Serializable {
+ private int flags = 0;
+
+ /**
+ * <p/>
+ *
+ * Get the bitset for any bits that have been set. This is completely distinct from {@link TypeAttribute#type()}, although they do share similar purposes.
+ * The flags can be used to encode information about the token for use by other {@link org.apache.lucene.analysis.TokenFilter}s.
+ *
+ *
+ * @return The bits
+ */
+ public int getFlags() {
+ return flags;
+ }
+
+ /**
+ * @see #getFlags()
+ */
+ public void setFlags(int flags) {
+ this.flags = flags;
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public void clear() {
+ flags = 0;
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public boolean equals(Object other) {
+ if (this == other) {
+ return true;
+ }
+
+ if (other instanceof FlagsAttributeImpl) {
+ return ((FlagsAttributeImpl) other).flags == flags;
+ }
+
+ return false;
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public int hashCode() {
+ return flags;
+ }
+
+ @Override
+ public void copyTo(AttributeImpl target) {
+ FlagsAttribute t = (FlagsAttribute) target;
+ t.setFlags(flags);
+ }
+}